10TH
JAWBREAKER
THRASHER
Hail Drop
A cop's
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THE TOP 501 REASONS
REASON No. 188
Dear You
his run with a frontside layback
grind and some frontside grinds.
Afterwards, he said he couldn't
get any speed, and when you
looked at his board, you could see
that his wheels were all twisted.
He had broken both his axles
when he landed. That "bomb
drop" was definitely the raddest
thing about that contest.
POPPED ART
Nathan Schroeder
Monrovia, CA
My skate scene sucks. Cancel
my son's subscription. That lady
that wrote in last month was hella
lame. Stop picking on Cobain.
With that said, perhaps you'll print
this letter. Ed Templeton's high
school assignment refrigerator
"art" is an insult to those with any
legitimate sense of true art today.
Simply because he is old enough
to get married and paint crappy
pictures of his all too frequently
naked wife does not mean that he
should take up space in skate-
board mags with his infantile fin-
ger paintings. In the past year, I
have seen more sickly images of
Mrs T than of Drew Barrymore. His
insultingly blatant and trite
attempt at political art is pathetic.
I am only speaking in terms of con-
tent, because I have never had the
privilege of viewing his work in
person. God knows, if I did stand
in front of an Edward Templeton
original, I might spring a boner
right through the canvas where
Mrs T was so very lovingly applied.
Please, do Ed a favor and show us
his true brilliance in skating and
not his false pretenses as a con-
temporary "fine" artist.
FUNGUS AMONGUS
Scott Teplin
Madison, WI
Have you ever wondered if the
salt you put on Chinese food will
hurt the fly that decides to eat off
of it? Which could cause the wave
to exceed 19 feet so the vulture
will circle its prey one more time to
be sure that the Indian does, in
fact, wear boxers for comfort
when they go on long, tribal,
astrich rides while wrapping up
their heads with toilet paper and
screaming to the owls to quit ask-
ing questions. Also, did you know
that the Smurfs were always trip-
ping because they lived in huge
mushrooms? The cause of that was
that they were kicked out of the
holes in the ground where they
used to live. The giant Smurf-eat-
ing mice became rabid and chased
those poor Smurfs right out of
their homes, which caused them to
be homeless and without food for
days until they came upon these
colorful mushrooms which they
ate. The fly-fisherman is always
risking his life when he's fishing in
a river. He never knows if a shark
has somehow escaped from the
ocean and travels through rivers
only to bite on the fly on the end
of the line. I am sitting and waiting
for the world to suddenly stop so
that everything will move to the
left about six inches.
Megan Blair
Saratoga, WI
Seek professional help. T-ed
SAFETY TESTED AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
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